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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Orange Historical Society aims to recruit new members as one way of offsetting the rising costs of insurance and other expenses.Twenty members gathered earlier this month for the society’s annual spring meeting, held at Witty’s Funeral...

By BELLA LEVAVI

TURNERS FALLS — Marking the 347th anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre on Saturday, organizers with the Nolumbeka Project reflected on not only the past, but the importance of healing from it.“You are all proof that we can look at each other as...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Historical Society will open for the season this year in a fashion that will, at long last, mirror pre-pandemic times. The 2023 season opens on Saturday with the new exhibit, “Rivers, Roads & Railroads,” a celebration of...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The Historical Society of Greenfield will launch its 2023 Speaker Series on Thursday with a presentation by Drew Lopenzina, an English professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia.Lopenzina, who has been a featured speaker...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Change is brewing at Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co., which is set to become a worker-owned cooperative on July 1.Dean Cycon founded the business in 1993 and, having recently turned 70, is ready to hand the reins to his 16 employees.“Who...

By CHRIS LARABEE

For some of the deepest New England history, one only needs to take a stroll through one of the numerous cemeteries in Franklin County.Local residents will have a chance for some of that history to be brought right to them on Tuesday, May 16 when...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — The Battlefield Grant Advisory Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that the Selectboard accept a proposal for principal investigator services to further study the Great Falls Massacre.The proposal, submitted by Heritage Consultants of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — On May 7, 1673, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted the liberty of a township to the inhabitants of the Pocumtuck village, which is now known as Deerfield. Now, on May 7, 2023, folks are invited to celebrate that...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — As the town gears up to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to sell the former Whately Center School, the Selectboard discussed the Historical Commission’s recommended preservation restrictions for the 113-year-old building on Chestnut Plain...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The newly official Wendell Historical Society has until June 13 to come up with $45,000 to buy the former depot store and post office, having reached an agreement with the longtime owner’s daughter in hopes of turning the building into a...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — A $20,000 matching grant awarded to the city by the Massachusetts Historical Commission will allow Greenfield to update its historic properties survey.Historical Commissioner Margo Jones told fellow members last week that the Survey and...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The Wilson’s Department Store redevelopment project began the process of coming before city boards on Thursday evening with an initial discussion with the Historical Commission. “We’re really excited to be able to do more work in...

By BELLA LEVAVI

COLRAIN — Joan McQuade says growing up with an active doctor’s office inside her childhood home didn’t feel strange at the time.“That was just the way it was,” she said simply.This home doctor’s office was where her father, Dr. John “Olie” Olson,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — The Selectboard authorized an agreement Wednesday evening to store town records from as far back as the 18th century at the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA), nearly ending a year-long process that began with a radiator leak in...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — A member of the Shutesbury Community Church for 30 years, Chris Footit is relieved to be back participating in and attending services, something he can do after a three-stop lift was installed at the 1827 meetinghouse on the town...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — After about 30 years without a local chapter, the Daughters of the American Revolution has returned to Greenfield. According to Regent Kathy Maleno of Greenfield, the Contentment Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

MONTAGUE — As the “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” exhibit is set to bid Montague adieu this Saturday, program partners say they are gratified with how the experience has gone.“I am thrilled with the way everything came out,” said Suzanne...

By BELLA LEVAVI

It may be hard to imagine, but in 1912 Greenfield had some of the highest-paid workers in the industrialized world. In partnership with the Smithsonian’s “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” exhibit at the Great Falls Discovery Center, James...

By BELLA LEVAVI

NORTHFIELD — As part of the year-long celebration of Northfield’s 350th anniversary, local historian David Brule will give a presentation on the town’s role in King Philip’s War between English colonists and Native Americans in the late 17th...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With the launch of its new mobile app, Historic Deerfield is inviting the public to learn about Indigenous history through a walking tour that places the museum’s main street in its original context.Now available on the Apple App Store and...